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Performing Craft in Mexico

Artisans, Aesthetics, and the Power of Translation
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This book examines how Mexican artisans and artistic actors participate in translations of aesthetics, politics, and history through the field of craft. The contributors build from historical and ethnographic archives and direct engagement with makers to reassemble an expanded vision of artisanal production in Mexico and the complicated classifications that surround Mexican popular art-making-from the American "craft" to the Spanish "artesania." This book also homages Dr. Janet Brody Esser's research on the Blackmen masquerades of Michoacan, exploring African culture in Mexico. The contributors provide wide-ranging insight into the colonial influences on Mexican popular art and its translation as well as the agency of creators and actors.
Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff is an independent scholar, founder of Cuentos Foundation, and assistant editor of the Journal of Embodied Research.
Chapter One: Introducing Things: Between the Lines Part One: Translating Insides and Outsides, Materials and Gestures, Nomadic Aesthetics and Community Chapter Two: Artisans and Crafts in Post-revolutionary Mexico Chapter Three: The Case of the Rebozo: Stereotypes about Mexicanidad and Femininity in the Art of the Nineteenth Century Chapter Four: Performative Materiality, Masks and Masking in Teloloapan, Guerrero Chapter Five: Indigenous Aesthetics and "Glocalization": Recursive Agencies and Reflexivity Chapter Six: Identity, Female Empowerment and Resistance through Textile Crafts in the Pure pecha Region of Mexico Chapter Seven: The Triqui Huipil as a Representation of Territory: Women Immigrants between Oaxaca and San Luis Potosi Part Two: Fortleben: Calling Forth, Living Forth Chapter Eight: Pondering Fortleben: An interview with Janet Esser Chapter Nine: Winter Ceremonial Masks of the Tarascan Sierra, Michoacan, Mexico-Selected Excerpts Chapter Ten: Afterword
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